Photo Essays

U.S. Air Force Capt. Natasha Tavalone, serving aboard the hospital ship USNS Mercy, examines a patient's eye during a Pacific Partnership 2010 medical civic action program in Sulamadaha, Indonesia, July 20, 2010. The Mercy is in the North Maluku Islands conducting Pacific Partnership 2010, the fifth in a series of annual U.S. Pacific Fleet endeavors in Indonesia as a disaster relief exercise aimed at strengthening regional partnerships.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Eddie Harrison

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses an audience of more than 45,000 during the Boy Scouts of America 2010 National Scout Jamboree on Fort AP Hill, Va., July 28, 2010.
DoD photo by Cherie Cullen

U.S. Navy and South Korea ships transit the Sea of Japan in a 13-ship formation, July 26 2010. The United States and South Korea are conducting the combined alliance maritime and air readiness exercise "Invincible Spirit" in the seas east of the Korean peninsula, July 25-28, 2010. This is the first in a series of joint military exercises that will occur over the coming months in the East and West Seas.
U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Adam K. Thomas

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, center, talks with Felix P. Camacho, governor of Guam, while special assistant Sandy Hodgkinson looks on during a recent visit to Agana, Guam, July 28, 2010.
DoD photo by U.S. Air Force by U.S. Master Sgt. Jerry Morrison

U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, greets the various commanding generals of U.S. Forces, Iraq, in Baghdad, July 27, 2010. Mullen's final stop in Iraq wraps up a ten-day, around the world trip to meet with counterparts and troops engaged in the war on terrorism.
DoD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley

Local residents wait for treatment during a medical engagement sponsored by the 2nd Infantry Division's,4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, United States Division-Center, at Quiamacam, a government office in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, July 22, 2010. Although sponsored by U.S. forces, Iraqi medical personnel took the lead for the mission, seeing dozens of local Abu Ghraib citizens.
U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Phillip Valentine